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High Court declares bikie gang laws invalid
High Court declares bikie gang laws invalid

The High Court ruling is likely to have ramifications in South Australia, which has been struggling to enforce similar laws. BARBARA MILLER: It was a deadly brawl between bikie gang members at Sydney Airport that led to the creation in 2009 of



Thalidomide class action launched
Thalidomide class action launched

Proceedings will be issued in the Victorian Supreme Court against the inventor of the drug, German chemical manufacturer Grunenthal, and the company licensed to sell it in Australia, UK-based Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd. The class action,



Shares in India's Lanco fall after A$3.5 bln lawsuit report
Shares in India's Lanco fall after A$3.5 bln lawsuit report

Australia-based Perdaman Industries filed suit in the Supreme Court of Western Australia against Lanco for not complying with a pact to supply coal from mines owned by Griffin Coal, PTI said in a news report seen on the website of the Economic Times



Judge who set the pace for the law
Judge who set the pace for the law

When Opes Prime liquidators struck a huge deal with ANZ and Merrill Lynch to partly compensate the firm's clients, Fink went against earlier authority in the New South Wales Supreme Court and approved terms for a scheme of arrangement that shut down



Government closes welfare loophole threatening fraud convictions

The Supreme Court of South Australia ruled last year that social security recipients had not been compelled by law to notify Centrelink of changes in their income or circumstances that might affect their payments, puttingin question more than a




Seeing justice done – 150 years of the Supreme Court of Western ...

About a week ago my brother-in-law spotted a little notice in the local paper advertising the Supreme Court of Western Australia’s open day .  So today the whole family packed into one car and headed up to Perth to take a look round.

The open day was to mark 150 years of the Supreme Court in WA and was surprisingly popular!  Our first stop, the Old Court House (1837), now the Old Court House Museum was packed with visitors.  We shuffled through with the throng.  The building had been used for many purposes over the years, a school, a concert venue, a public meeting venue as well as a court (it was used as the Arbitration court as late as 1963).   The architect was Henry W. Reveley, a civil engineer who was one of the earliest architects in the colony.  I was amused to see that in the days when the building shared the functions of school and court:

 had been filmed in that court, the programme goes to air next Thursday.  We were impressed that such senior members of the profession had welcomed the public into their workplace, emphasizing that the courts are our courts, and encouraging us to come and watch a trial.

We left that court down the steep stairs leading directly from the dock to the concrete, steel and security glass of the holding cells (renovated following a breakout in 2004) eventually exiting through the sally-port (what a lovely medieval name for the prisoners entrance!


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Nicole Cox Supreme Court jury finds father and son Frank and Adam Mikhail guilty of the wilful murder of Frank and Kim La Rosa.


Supreme Court Australia - Bookshelf

The legislative powers of the Commonwealth and the states of Australia, with proposed amendments

The legislative powers of the Commonwealth and the states of Australia, with proposed amendments

There is, of course, the difference that the original jurisdiction of the High Court under this Constitution is wider than that of the Supreme Court of the ...

The annotated constitution of the Australian commonwealth

The annotated constitution of the Australian commonwealth

... Apparently the Supreme Court is here created by the Constitution, ... The High Court of Australia." The High Court is the crown and apex, ...

APAIS, Australian public affairs information service, a subject index to current literature

APAIS, Australian public affairs information service, a subject index to current literature

[Interview with David Malcolm, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia]. port. MALCOLM, David. Brief, v. 23, no.1, Feb 1996 : 6-7 (Courts* ...

Asia, Australia and Oceania

Asia, Australia and Oceania

(1) An appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court from any final order, judgment, decree or sentence, of the Court of Appeal in any matter or proceedings, ...

The government of Victoria (Australia)

The government of Victoria (Australia)

arrest of the debtor's person.1 The bailiff of one county court is bound to ... and a county court judgment may be registered in the Supreme Court and ...

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Supreme Court of Western Australia
The state's highest court, with responsibility for both criminal and civil matters. Features court listings, judgments, media statements, and more.

Supreme Court of Victoria
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Supreme Court of South Australia - Wikipedia, the free ...
The Supreme Court of South Australia building from Victoria Square. ... The creation of a Supreme Court was unique in the case of South Australia. ...

Supreme Court of Western Australia - Wikipedia, the free ...
Supreme Court of Western Australia. The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the highest state court in the Australian State of Western Australia. ...

Courts Administration Authority South Australia
The Supreme Court of South Australia is a court of both law and equity. It deals with the more important civil cases and the most serious criminal matters. ...
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